Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free the prostitutes from having to hang around bars. Says Josephine, a vivacious redhead who drew up the petition: "If you do not drink, the personnel are not very happy, since their wages are based on turnover. Men want you to drink with them, and there is a great danger of becoming alcoholic...
...addition, say the women, an advanced starting time would allow them to quit work earlier and avoid the danger of late-night muggings. Earlier hours would also improve their domestic lives. Most are mothers and they would have more time to spend with their children. Profits would also improve. The going rate for a trick in Zurich is $50, a price that has not kept pace with inflation. Says Josephine in exasperation: "I would like to know another profession that has worked for the same wages for 14 years." The city council has agreed to consider the prostitutes' petition...
...Warsaw, and she drags the love-smitten Byron along with her. Through this credibility-straining contrivance, Wouk brings within his action the German blitzkrieg and the bombing of Warsaw. Later, after Natalie marries Byron, she is trapped in Europe with her uncle; as Jews, both are in grave danger of disappearing into Hitler's Holocaust. The persecution of the Jews is one of the dominating concerns of both the series and its author, who is a devout Orthodox...
...into Queen Elizabeth II's Buckingham Palace bedroom for an early-morning chat. After several court appearances, he was sent to a maximum-security hospital for psychiatric treatment. Pagan was freed last week by a mental health review tribunal on the grounds that he no longer posed a danger to others. Many Britons thought otherwise. Conservative Member of Parliament Sheila Faith had one word for the decision: "incomprehensible...
...crowds were beginning to gather at the Executive Inn Rivermont, near Owensboro, Ky. Dolly Parton, 37, had come to town. About an hour before showtime, a woman phoned Owensboro police to warn of possible danger from a man who "wants to harm her, a person who can't stand her." Parton's security consultant, Gavin DeBecker, 29, recommended that she cancel the concert and three others scheduled for last week. DeBecker believes he has a line on the man, a mental patient who has been arrested "a number of times." As for Parton, who carries a snub-nosed...